The topic of fair taxation of the digital economy will be discussed in-depth on 28 February, 2019, in Salzburg, where scientists from the universities of Salzburg, Vienna, Linz and Salzburg Research, as well as experienced representatives of the economic trustees and an expert of the Ministry of Finance (BMF) will lecture.

This year, the Knowledge Network Law, Economy and Labor, together with the Vienna Center for Legal Informatics (WZRI) of the University of Vienna, has organized what is now the largest and most important scientific conference in Austria and Central Europe in the field of legal informatics: the International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS. The event will be held from February 21 to 23, 2019, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Salzburg.

The University of Salzburg and the Wissensstadt Salzburg invite the general public to the international Open NanoScience Congress at the Unipark Nonntal on 26 February, 2019. Scientists offer insights into current research projects, whether on nanosafety or novel nanomaterials. The students from the Sparkling Science Project "Nan-O-Style" are also involved in the Congress and will present their work on nanomaterials in modern lifestyle products.

Appraising Risks: Patterns of Major Socio-Economic Risk and Risk Projection in the Indian Ocean World

Prof. Dr. Angela Schottenhammer is part of a multi-disciplinary, international team of scholars under the directorship of Professor Gwyn Campbell of McGill University that has been awarded a $2.5 million partnership grant funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to investigate six periods of historical and contemporary environmental (e.g. climate change, volcanism, monsoons, cyclones, drought) ...